Easy Garden Tomato Sauce

When grape tomatoes are overflowing in your garden, whip up a quick, easy tomato sauce! Grape or cherry tomatoes sauteed with olive oil, garlic and fresh herbs are perfect over pasta, grilled chicken or fish.

Easy Garden Tomato Sauce

Take advantage of summer tomatoes now while they are at their peak! I also have an Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce, perfect if you have ripe summer plum tomatoes.

This recipe is from the archives from last summer, I’ve been making it quite often these past few weeks now that grape tomatoes are at their peak so I decided to bring this recipe forward. Perfect over your favorite pasta shape for meatless Mondays in less than 30 minutes.

Oh my gosh that picture is absolutely amazing!! Tell me you submitted that to TasteSpotting!! I have a whole bowl of little tomatoes in my fridge that I've been snacking on this week – they are begging to become a part of this sauce 🙂

I made this with regular sized tomatoes since it's what I grow in my garden, so I ended up with a lot of liquid, however I LOVED the flavour! Do you have any ideas as to what I could use to thicken up the sauce next time I make it?

Made this recipe last night and it was delicious. Like Alex I also added a bit of basil and a touch more salt and pepper since I had yellow grape tomatoes, which tend to be sweeter. This was great for lunch cold as a pasta salad!

I made this last night and it was amazing! I love cherry tomatoes, and bought a bunch (they're cheaper than regular tomatoes where I live, in West Africa). They got super ripe, and I was lamenting the thought of them going bad, and that's when I saw your recipe. And, the cool thing is that I had exactly 1.5 lbs left! I ate a whole cup over homemade whole wheat pasta, and it was fantastic with the smallest sprinkle of parmesan. I can't wait to make it again! Have you ever made a big batch and frozen it in smaller portions? I'm tempted to, but would love your thoughts. Thanks!

making this right now! Smells wonderful! Of course it will be good!! Grape tomatoes were really cheap this week and ended up with 7 containers! (my son eats them like candy and him and my husband love them for snacks.) I knew I had too much… this is perfect! Putting mine over some italian-style chicken breast to give it a little more flare. Yum!

Can I can this? I have a ton of mason jars. Do you do any canning recipes? I love you Gina! Thank you so much. As like a lot of the posters I have a ton of cherry tomatoes coming in my garden now and hubby doesn't eat tomatoes! ekkkkk

Gina you are a genius. I had grape tomatoes in my fridge and didnt know what to do with them. This was delicious. I put it on top a a Tilapia filet and it tasted like heaven. Can you please put more recipes using green beans. My garden is overflowing with them.

Made this for dinner tonight using grape tomatoes and basil and oregano I have growing. DELICIOUS! Definately use fresh garlic. Grilled chicken slices would also be wonderful on top. Thanks for a winning recipe!

I made this twice since I found out about the recipe. I LOVE IT! The last time I had some leftovers and I melted a wedge of laughing cow light garlic and herb cheese it in and put it over spaghetti squash! yumm. The cheese gave it a nice creamy texture and taste without adding a lot of extra calories!

I’ve just tried this recipe with whole-wheat pasta and it’s just delicious! Thank you so much for sharing it. I’ve tried others from this page and they’re great as well. I’m trying a vegetarian diet for a week and I’m using recies from this site. Congrats on your work!

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Hi, I’m Gina Homolka, a busy mom of two girls, author and recipe developer here at Skinnytaste.com. My food philosophy is to eat seasonal, whole foods and maintain good portion control (everything in moderation!).